A local high-school grad is transforming the world of powerlifting into a safe-space for women. Jamie Augustine is only 18 years old but already a world powerlifting champion and more recently a ...

Sybil Sohail, a young Christian athlete, made history by becoming the first Pakistani woman to win a gold medal at the Asian Weightlifting Masters Championship, held last week in Doha, Qatar. The ...

But their current training protocols, most of which involve time in the weight ... “Women looked at her and thought, ‘Wow, that is something I could do,’” Shapley says. When women do try ...

The 71kg women's class is a new Olympic category for Paris after the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) reorganised the programme after the Tokyo Games. World champion Liao Guifang ...

A UKRAINIAN weightlifting champion has been killed while fighting ... Nina is believed to be the seventh female Ukrainian sniper to be killed during the brutal invasion, according to Russian ...

In the male-dominated realm of weightlifting and bodybuilding, women are steadily carving out their place, not just as participants, but as champions and advocates. Behind the clinks of metal and ...

Campbell is the only female Olympic medallist in the history of British weightlifting after winning ... At 24, Li is already twice a world champion and holds world records in both snatch and ...

Team Nigeria's weightlifters wrapped up their participation at the 2025 African Senior Weightlifting ... four female, two male, and two coaches represented the country at the continental championship.

PARIS, Aug 11 (Reuters) - China's Li Wenwen won her second Olympic gold medal with a dominant performance to take the title in the women's over 81kg weightlifting ... world champion at the same ...

China has won four weightlifting gold medals and has a chance at a fifth Sunday when Li Wenwen competes in the women’s 81-plus kilograms. Liu beat Tokyo champion Akbar Djuraev of Uzbekistan in a ...